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I LIKED THIS.
"Dude, you’re so edgy and politically incorrect. it’s totally ironic and satirical how you regurgitated those ancient and threadbare stereotypes. It reminds me of my great great great great grandpa, Cracker von Patriarch, who also challenged the status quo by embracing it with loving tenderness."
snobographer (via lavenderlabia)
(Source: octagon-surgeon, via miggylol)
you know
the day I died was the day I embraced pride in who I am
washed myself of white-washing, looked that shit in the eye and said
“this is some fucked up bullshit”
the day I died was the day I was crucified
chastized, scrutinized, stigmitized but christ almighty I
rose up
and claimed that shit because there is no shame
in being proud
(except for y’all white folk because your whiteness is a history of exploitation, colonization, genocide, devaluation, oppression)
and hey, I had no say being born in my skin either,
but that’s different from finding solidarity with my bretheren and sisteren and calling them my family, my community,
people who teach me, heal me,
see me
as more than just brownness and complacency in this framework of our shared history
of being put down and I’m proud,
because I’m tired and angry of being quiet
because model minority is a myth
because forever foreigner is a piece of shit
because I am done
with being reduced to ching chong ling long ting tong
and I’m sorry
if my pride makes you scared of the fact that I know
this, and I ain’t letting it go.
source: funkduptv
where the term ‘women of color’ came from
“Telling poc that white people have power that they can’t ever get is a bad idea because it propagates white supremacy and makes poc hate white people and then how will white people ever be allies if poc hate them and don’t include them ergo racism will never end.”
She is full of a love so strong, so unambiguous, it resembles appetite.
"A vast amount of energy that goes into what we call the Negro problem is produced by the white man’s profound desire not to be judged by those who are not white, not to be seen as he is, and at the same time a vast amount of the white anguish is rooted in the white man’s equally profound need to be seen as he is, to be released from the tyranny of his mirror."
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
Denis Waitley (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
(via dyemelikeasunset)
“You can’t talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it’s precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.”
-Cornel West
The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn’t hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.
- The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and border and salute each other."
Rainer Maria Rilke
